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Juan Domingo Perón (UK: / p ɛ ˈ r ɒ n /, US: / p ɛ ˈ r oʊ n, p ə ˈ-, p eɪ ˈ-/ ⓘ, [3] [4] [5] Spanish: [ˈxwan doˈmiŋɡo peˈɾon] ⓘ; 8 October 1895 – 1 July 1974) was an Argentine lieutenant general and statesman who served as the 29th president of Argentina from 1946 to his overthrow in 1955, and again as the 40th president ...
The popular Argentine leader Juan Perón, three-time President of Argentina, was a colonel in the army who first came to political power in the aftermath of a 1943 military coup. He advocated a new policy dubbed Justicialism , a nationalist policy that he claimed was a " Third Position ", an alternative to both capitalism and communism.
In Argentina, there were seven coups d'état during the 20th century: in 1930, 1943, 1955, 1962, 1966, 1976, and 1981. The first four established interim dictatorships, while the fifth and sixth established dictatorships of permanent type on the model of a bureaucratic-authoritarian state.
Juan Domingo Perón receives the presidential attributes from his predecessor Edelmiro Farrel on June 4, 1946. When Perón was elected, his coalition won the majority of the chamber of deputies and the entirety of the senate. As a result, his government was able to replace the supreme court judges with others aligned with them.
Argentine president Juan Perón and first lady Eva Perón have been the central figures in the Justicialist Party. Symbols associated with Peronism (from top-left clockwise: Peronist Party emblem, Federal Star, the "V" hand sign and "Perón Vuelve" ["Peron Returns"] sign).
If populist movements in 1930s and 1940s Latin America had apparent fascist overtones and based themselves on authoritarian politics, as was the case of Vargas' Estado Novo dictatorship in Brazil (1937–1945), [16] or of some of Peron's openly expressed sympathies, [17] in the 1950s populism adapted—not without considerable unease from its ...
Catalina Cepernic's great-grandfather Jorge, a sheep-farm owner in Argentina's windswept Patagonia, was the first member of the family won over to the ideas of Juan Domingo Peron, the former ...
Peron's loss of power, besides the public ridicule, was magnified by the loss of her congressional majority. In addition, her popular support was reduced to a right wing section of Peronism. [16] By February 1976, three service commanders had requested that she resign from the presidency.